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It was an evening of rock ’n’ roll, laughs and baseball at Chicago’s inaugural Hot Stove Cool Music benefit concert. Headlined by no less an act than the Smashing Pumpkins, the event raised more than $175,000 for disadvantaged youth via Chicago Cubs Charities and Cubs President Theo Epstein’s Foundation To Be Named Later. The Figgs, Jenny Dee & the Deelinquents and Company of Thieves also rocked out, while comedians Mike O’Malley, Jeff Garlin and Joel Murray brought the laughs. Hot Stove Cool Music was founded by writers Peter Gammons and Jeff Horrigan in 2000 to raise funds for Foundation To Be Named Later and The Jimmy Fund. Photos by Will Byington